This first part of this commentary is taken from of an article written by Al Raychard for a series called Our Man in Canada Archives. It appears in full on flyanglersonline.com.
Little Minipi Lake is “part of a complex system of shallow tea-colored lakes and connecting thoroughfares, riffles and rapids that drain 250 square miles of pristine wilderness 60 miles south of Goose Bay Labrador. … Of a handful of major drainages were giant brook trout are found, the Broadback, the Eastmain and Rupert in Quebec, the Ashuanipi and Eagle in Labrador and God’s in Manitoba among others, the Minipi is unique. While large Brook trout are caught elsewhere, Minipi specimens average… four to 5 pounds…. No place on the planet has produced more record Brook trout.”
“First explored by the late Lee Wulff who pronounced it, ‘the finest book trout fishing in the world,’ “the Minipi …
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